Healthcare-NOW! (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The Des Moines Register recently printed an editorial endorsing single-payer healthcare. Here’s the whole editorial: “There is no way to solve America’s economic problems without solving health care,” said U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The $2.3 trillion spent annually on health care “sucks up 16 percent of our economy and [...]
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The time is now: Reform health care One need only look to history to see that this is the time for such reform. In 1964, the Democrats won control, and the election of Lyndon Johnson was seen as an endorsement of a national health-insurance system. Congress and Johnson created Medicare. In signing...
Corrente (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The time is now: Reform health care One need only look to history to see that this is the time for such reform. In 1964, the Democrats won control, and the election of Lyndon Johnson was seen as an endorsement of a national health-insurance system. Congress and Johnson created Medicare. In signing the bill into law, Johnson quoted his predecessor, President Harry Truman: "Millions do not now have...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
His daughters, 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha, would stop by with their mother, Michelle, and Maxfield said they loved the cookies. During a stop in Iowa last month, Obama's staff ordered about a dozen cookies for the family. That's when word got out about their affection for the confection.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
A bus carrying members of the Bellevue High School football team overturned on its side on Interstate 5.Injuries are believed to be minor in the crash, which happened at 10:56 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-5 south near Des Moines. The bus was heading to the Tacoma Dome, where the team was scheduled to play Capital High of Olympia. The game was canceled.According to the State Patrol, eight...
ronald wesley maly (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... much of Pulitzers. That puts him in the same category as a guy I know who used to work at the Des Moines Register. That guy was a very good newspaper reporter and editor. But he'd get irritated because of the way his bosses worked themselves into a frenzy whenever the Pulitzers were about to be awarded. So the guy used Pulitzer Day as a vacation day. He stayed home so he didn't have to watch...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Des Moines Area Religious Council (DMARC) and Temple B'nai Jeshurun are presenting an "Interfaith Memorial Service for Victims in Mumbai" on Tuesday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Temple B'nai Jeshurun (5101 Grand Avenue in Des Moines). All are welcome to attend the service. Donations to the DMARC [...]
Standing FIRM (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many of the more than 300 workers arrested in Postville raid this past May were immigrants from Guatemala. On Saturday, the Des Moines Register ran a great piece exploring the connection of Guatemalan immigrants and the town of Postville. The main focus of the article is the abject poverty faced by many Gautemalans, poverty that leaves [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Steve Deace from WHO radio out of Des Moines, Iowa, interviewed Governor Mike Huckabee yesterday on his show Deace in the Afternoon. Huckabee was interviewed via cell phone while he was on his Do the Right Thing book tour en route from Alabama to Mississippi. The governor has not been [...]
Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Des Moines Register political columnist David Yepsen has formally interviewed for the director’s position at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale. Yepsen is the first of three candidates interviewing for the position. David Yepsen, a political columnist for the Des Moines Register, said the institute could be used as [...]
Get A New Browser (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Hilarious… October 27, 2008 — Windows Azure - A Cloud OS September 12, 2008 — Seinfeld and Gates - Friday Video August 22, 2008 — Discussing Microsoft move to West Des Moines on local ABC news August 21, 2008 — Microsoft Data Center in West Des Moines, IA July 10, 2008 — Microsoft’s Faltering Strategic Relevance Featuring: Iowa Blogs A [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Principal Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:PFG) today announced that it will host an investor conference on Wednesday, December 10, 2008, from 8:00 a.m. to approximately noon ET.
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Steve Deace from WHO radio out of Des Moines, Iowa, interviewed Governor Mike Huckabee yesterday on his show Deace in the Afternoon. Huckabee was interviewed via cell phone while he was on his Do the Right Thing book tour en route from Alabama to Mississippi. The governor has not been [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Des Moines Register debate before the caucuses was remembered for a horrible job from the moderator. However, this clip will be remembered now that Hillary Clinton has official be named Sec. of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and [...]
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Here’s a sob story with above-average arrogance and stupidity: it concerns the unhappy state of poor Hispanic foreigners who can’t wangle a legal way to immigrate: [Immigration policy: Law gives many no shot at U.S., Des Moines Register, November 29, 2008, by Tony Leys]. As if immigration were some sort of universal right. As Steve [...]
